Troubling Quotations

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

I wasn't the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail - and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention - to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.

Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block the creation of a more effective human rights body is not only ironic, it is disgraceful.

Was there a 12-hour shredding party at the White House that night? ... We don't know, but I hope that the prosecutor examines this troubling disclosure.

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn't think were interesting and transforms all this stuff into something of biologic interest.

We find it increasingly troubling when state and local governments provide our competitors a head start in the marketplace by subsidizing the construction of their stores. We believe the success of a retail business is best decided in the marketplace, not the halls of the state capitol.

What's most troubling to teachers is the speed with which things are moving. We're worried that programs won't be in place and classrooms won't be ready by the time the students come back to school in late August.

We removed the people who did not want to engage in the principles of the fraternity. There has been a huge difference in attitude and actions. They've went from one of the most troubling to one of the most outstanding.

We've seen some troubling signs. Like almost every fish and shellfish that uses the bay, Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackish conditions. But as we ship more and more water south from the delta, we're endangering the herring and most other commercial species.

The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.

The only issue that is troubling is they feel some of the costs from energy are being passed on.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.

One of the big and troubling trends of recent years is that we've been shifting away from focusing on grants to loans.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

I am getting the sneaking suspicion that there is an inventory situation going on here, which means that growth could be even weaker. That is a bit troubling to me.

Basically, if you see 73 accumulation violations, that's a sign of a mine operator who is not too concerned with safety. It's troubling if you see that many.

I find this more troubling than deception in the political campaigns. The level of misunderstanding and the consequences of misunderstanding can be much more dramatic. If we don't hold the right people accountable and the right processes accountable, we'll risk having another catastrophe without real preparedness, and more people will die needlessly.

If all of a sudden once it leaves here, people have the opportunity to change it contrary to the intent of the federal sponsors, contrary to the desires of local government, I think is a very troubling precedent,

if someone does, we will listen very, very carefully and look into the situation. It's clearly an issue that is troubling to a lot of people in the state of Iowa.

Whatever the exact numbers, the scale and persistence of the problem of child-headed households in Rwanda is daunting, ... The plight of these children is not only heartbreaking and unacceptable -- it raises deeply troubling questions about the long-term prospects for the country's recovery.

What drives the play is the delicate nature of happiness and why it is that some people just cant find it. Carol is not a depressed person. She has some things in her life that are troubling her marriage is falling apart. But she is actually a huge-hearted, generous person. Its been interesting and even exciting to see how theatrical the play is, and the echoes and connections. Its woven more tightly than I thought, and the humor comes through also.

The people of the province want the government to be focused on energy. It is something that is very troubling to many, many Nova Scotians, and we are going to focus on energy.

What is even more troubling (than the apparent resistance by the landowner to build the bridge) is the fact that I understand that there has been some possible negotiations from Doug Haigh.

He's been silent on the issue. He's been unengaged and showing absolutely no leadership. And I think it's critical that he do so as we go into the busiest and most troubling time of the year from a price perspective.

just the latest in a series of troubling decisions by the Board of Education.

It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.

I was completely surprised. I think things were troubling him from his local detractors.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said to me, 'David, I'm no lawyer and I'm no doctor. But I don't understand why they have to kill my little girl.' That's the troubling moral dilemma. Why, with family who wanted her, did Terri have to die this horrific death?

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.

Right now the base is completely fractured and people are very concerned about the impact on the 2006 elections. The troubling thing is that the Supreme Court was the gold ring and the president's thinking appears indiscernible, unless you're willing to take it as a matter of faith.

Residents and workers still await a proper toxic cleanup and medical response to the World Trade Center attack. That weak track record and the troubling new federal policies described in this report do not bode well for the future. Americans should assume that in any future national disaster, human health and safety may not be protected.

Regardless of who is serving as Secretary of Defense, public comments by several former senior officers involved in the planning or implementation of our presence in Iraq raise troubling questions about that process.

My problem has been my feet and that's difficult for any hitter to overcome.  I've played with a lot of pain this year but I haven't told anybody. It's not an excuse. But it has hurt. I have to talk now because it's been troubling me.

I think retail is going to be a very tough place to make money. What's worrying the market now is -- if the Fed is successful in slowing the economy, what does it mean for profits going forward? And that is apparent - that's more clearly an issue in retail than anyplace else. But it is an issue in the market itself that you're going into a period here where profit growth may decelerate; in fact, could flatten out as you have volume gains decelerate in a slowing economy, but cost increases embedded in from the period when you had a strong economy; and that's not exactly a great prescription for profits, and I think that's troubling the stock market,

I think his confirmation is hardly a done deal. I think lots of us are going to look at the hearings and look at what he says to us about what kind of attorney general he will be. He is far and away the most troubling of all the choices,

It is even more troubling that individuals would try to sell these items for profit to people they believed were international arms dealers.

The $6,000 payment was a blatant violation. The circumstances surrounding this violation are especially troubling because the former coaches concealed the cash payment from administrators at the institution for over five years.

Most employers don't want to reach into the private lives of employees. Smart employers want to cover themselves against troubling behavior. They don't want to create a big brother situation.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

troubling concerns that the Army Corps' ongoing repair and reconstruction efforts have been insufficient.

troubling because they confirm that the outage was the result of multiple errors and a lack of communication.

We stayed confident throughout all the troubling things. Every team goes through things like that. That's the way champions do it; they overcome their problems.

We often see price increases in January. What's particularly troubling for consumers is that the average price for the first month of 2006 is starting at a much higher level than it did a year ago.

This research process resulted in some eye-opening and somewhat troubling conclusions. Large organizations identified security holes across a number of areas. Security processes are fair at best, and most users have not been trained on security policies and risks. I view the data from this report as a cry for help - clearly something must be done soon.

We think the demo was completely misleading. It's very troubling that Glaser would make these types of accusations, and it's troubling that the Judiciary Committee would provide a forum for these types of accusations.

The presumption of innocence has disappeared. There are serious and troubling questions about these charges - their timing and purpose.

To see this much turnover is troubling in some respects. In the meantime, you're left with a number of fund managers with limited track records.

You have a lot of troubling questions ... You have some significant policy matters being determined in the midst of some very questionable activity involving a foreign government -- involving the very government that he is planning on visiting. So I don't think it's bad to stop and reassess that at this point,

What's troubling to me is some of the grassland losses in South Dakota, where there are some of the highest densities of pintails. I'm from South Dakota, and a lot of those grasslands are soybeans now.

What's troubling about the economic recovery that we've been in is that all of the traditional indicators of employment, household income and poverty levels are lagging behind prior expansions.

What is very troubling to me today are reports from soldiers serving at Abu Ghraib who have very strong suspicions that the abuse continues.

Even the smallest initiatives are being mitigated or stopped by some of the most unlikely and often uninformed parties...I view these circumstances as quite troubling because the good work laid out by the IT Commission is slowly being strangled and brought to a halt. And the last thing I can let happen is my presence be the major contributing factor marginalizing the good work of ITD and the entire IT community.

a troubling new allegation which needs to be fully investigated at the time of the hearing. It's already an extremely troubling nomination because of her long-standing hostility to the basic rights of American workers.

At the 11th hour they made a substantial economic offer which we're going to evaluate. We're going to come back with another economic offer, but there are still very troubling issues on the table.

DNA evidence has revealed a finite but troubling class of convictions tainted by what is best described as 'false facts': forensic evidence that likely carried great weight with the original jury, but which is now known, to a scientific certainty, to have been erroneous.

Director Goss's announcement leaves me with one troubling question: what failures in performance, if not these, warrant the convening of an accountability board at the CIA?

Equally troubling is the reality that western firms are effectively facilitating censorship in China and jeopardizing the welfare of journalists. Fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, should not be negotiated away in return for market access. Western businesses have a leadership role to play in encouraging best business practices in local markets, including in the information sector.

Equally troubling is the manner by which this matter, and others, has been handled by the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, which long ago could have taken steps to address and correct this situation. As a result, America's skeleton athletes have had to deal with an unnecessary distraction during their preparation for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games, and that is unacceptable.

There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

The rise in oil prices and concern over the Fed's interest rate policy are very troubling to the market. That's going to present a challenge to this rally.

It would be one thing if the department didn't identify security lapses in the first place, but a more troubling situation when they make promises to the American people and then leave them unfulfilled.

The seasons could resume depending on the findings. But the allegations are troubling enough that we don't want anything to go forward until we get the facts of the matter.

The Shi Tao case raises profound and troubling questions about basic human rights, Ultimately American companies in China face a choice: comply with Chinese law, or leave.

The sheer visual impact of the display, coupled with the enormity of the numbers of victims, is humbling and troubling at the same time. It serves as a reminder that we as a society cannot let anything like this ever happen again.

These developments are especially troubling because Floridians' claims may have been mishandled as a result, ... We will pursue this investigation fully to ensure complete accountability.

Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy, ... But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?

The narrowness of the market is troubling and that probably means that the short-term is not going to be all that exciting and that's what leads me to the conclusion that, while 10,000 is a milestone, it does not herald the next leg up in the bull market,

The narrowness in the market is troubling and that probably means that the short term is not going to be all that exciting.

After an initial read, the results are clearly troubling and will require further discussion with the international community.

Oil prices, I think, are something to keep an eye on. So far, they have not influenced the inflation data to the point where we think it should be too troubling to the bond market but if prices go a little higher, if they stay up here. I think it's something we'll have to keep an eye on.

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

You're not just talking about 2 teams and 50 jobs. You're talking about establishing a precedent that the owners can eliminate jobs. That would be very troubling for players,

your claims that we somehow intentionally disable your beta were troubling and frankly a little frustrating ...

This is a troubling situation, Sony is, of course, a strong advocate of content protection. Beyond that, at this point, we don't have enough information.

This is one more step in the direction of a more national, systematic approach to what has been a very troubling issue, I think, for many of us,

This is part of a troubling pattern by the government of spying on peaceful groups.

This certainly doesn't appear to be something that was open and transparent. This really does smack of a backroom deal. I find the deal very troubling because of its complex nature and because of the fact it involves so many of these large media companies that compete with one another.

This case presents a deeply troubling picture of greed and deception at a large, publicly held company,

This episode where the White House consulted with powerful interests in the Republican Party but not sufficiently with the Senate is troubling and disappointing, ... I renew my call that the President provide sufficient and necessary information about his nominee for the United States Supreme Court to the Senate so we can perform our Constitutional duty of advice and consent.

This is a disappointing decision that is likely to result in a troubling movement by states to pass their own assisted suicide laws.

This information is extremely troubling and reeks of favoritism.

Although it is true that national governments would be free to establish controls over Internet use within their own borders, they already enjoy such powers. China may have instituted troubling censorship controls, but many democratic countries have also created national rules that limit online freedoms.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

This particular choice is more troubling than the others because Senator Ashcroft is more far over to the right on his views,

There isn't any question in my mind that this operation violated federal law. And once you determine that federal law was violated, you ... reach a very troubling set of related conclusions.

This is the most troubling budget we've seen from this White House.

This is troubling because there are about 35 million contact-lens wearers in the USA and, of those, roughly 25 million or 26 million are soft lens wearers. Basically, everybody who wears soft lenses is at risk for this type of infection.

This is a very troubling thing. The economy grew, more people had jobs, yet there was a decline in employer-based health insurance.

The research says many Canadians feel they pay too much in fees for the quality of service they receive. This is a troubling fact given the significant negative effect fees can have on investment returns over the long term.

At a time when America must take aggressive steps to reduce oil dependence significantly, the proposal's estimated gasoline savings, less than 1 percent of current consumption, are paltry to the point of irrelevance. This feeble proposal represents failed leadership. It is another troubling sign that the administration refuses to take the dangers of oil dependence seriously. At a time when gasoline prices are skirting $3 per gallon, what will it take for the Bush administration and for Congress to wake up?

As we celebrate Black History Month, it is especially troubling that President Bush would release a budget that drastically cuts student aid, Medicaid, child support and funding for the disabled.

The more we learned, the more troubling the conduct became.

It's just troubling that they would try to push it forward when there are technical concerns, community concerns and their own consultant is questioning the wisdom of it.